strafes needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strafes is the highest-scoring word from strafes, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in strafes — and it is strafes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling strafes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster, safest, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are afters, faster, feasts, festas, safest, and strafe — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strafes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates, fears, rates, rests, safer, and seats. For points, the strongest plays are after, fares, farts, fasts, fates, fears, feast, feats, festa, fests, fetas, frass, frats, frets, rafts, safer, safes, serfs, and trefa — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in strafes produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, fast, and fate. For points, the strongest plays are arfs, efts, fare, fart, fast, fate, fats, fear, feat, fess, fest, feta, fets, frae, frat, fret, raft, refs, reft, safe, serf, and tref — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling strafes turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, efs, eft, far, fas, fat, fer, fes, fet, and ref — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strafes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in strafes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
strafes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in strafes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for strafes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
strafes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strafes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is strafes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from strafes earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in strafes produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.